PM says it’s about time Labour held up its hands and accepted responsibility for the Olympic timebomb they left behind

The Prime Minister David Cameron has placed the blame for the biggest Olympic success the country has had to face in over 100 years firmly on the previous Labour administration’s spending policies.

In a statement attacking Gordon Brown’s legacy both as chancellor and prime minister, Mr Cameron said:

It is clear that Gordon Brown’s irresponsible investment in sport, lack of regulation of the Indian dancing sector and insistence on spending taxpayers’ money on frivolous things like children’s education and healthcare instead of giving it away to private firms who couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery has created a situation where we are now ranked third in the whole world in terms of sporting prowess. And the blame for that must be placed entirelyon the shoulders…